{"id":690125,"date":"2010-03-12T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/12\/wsj-speculates-about-renault-nissan-taking-stake-in-gm\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:25:51","slug":"wsj-speculates-about-renault-nissan-taking-stake-in-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/690125","title":{"rendered":"WSJ speculates about Renault-Nissan taking stake in GM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: GM<\/a>, Nissan<\/a>, Earnings\/Financials<\/a>, Renault<\/a>, Rumormill<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rumors that Renault<\/a>–Nissan<\/a> may be interested in taking on a third head have popped once again, with the would-be merger candidate this time being General Motors<\/a>. Huh, sounds familiar<\/a>, doesn’t it<\/a>? In actuality, The Wall Street Journal<\/em> is really just speculating on the possible effects of such a deal, and it’s done so with all kinds of number crunching and colorful pie charts.<\/p>\n

The lone quote from Renault-Nissan head Carlos Ghosn that seems to have sparked the article: “The name of the game is scale and co-investments and sharing technologies.” That’s a common thread from Ghosn and most recently stated at the Geneva Motor Show<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n

After reading through the article, it seems possible that such a merger could make sound business sense for the Franco-Japanese automaker for a couple of reasons. First is Ghosn’s seemingly insatiable appetite for large-scale synergies. Second, the two automaker’s sales footprints appear to be rather complimentary. Finally, Renault-Nissan has enough cash reserves and holdings on hand that it could afford to purchase a 10-percent stake in the American automaker when it hopefully goes public again in early 2011.<\/p>\n

So, does any of this have an actual chance of happening? We have absolutely no idea, but that hardly seems to matter – we’re always up for a little speculation when it comes to our favorite topic of conversation. As always, questions, comments and snide remarks can be left in “Comments.” What say you? Does Renault-Nissan-General Motors have a nice ring to it?<\/p>\n

[Source: The Wall Street Journal<\/a> | Image: Raveendran\/AFP\/Getty]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: GM, Nissan, Earnings\/Financials, Renault, Rumormill Rumors that Renault–Nissan may be interested in taking on a third head have popped once again, with the would-be merger candidate this time being General Motors. Huh, sounds familiar, doesn’t it? In actuality, The Wall Street Journal is really just speculating on the possible effects of such a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Tx3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791533,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690125\/revisions\/791533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}